Robert Bonchune did add the artwork to some later renders of the design. It looked great. Did they ever say why they didn't add the artwork for the episode?
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Enterprise Era Starship Thread
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Might as well bring up the Romulan Drone Ship. It's an interesting design that actually reminds me of the Narada from Star Trek '09. Perhaps they share a design firm within the Romulan Star Empire.
They also make it somewhat more believable that no humans ever recovered any bodies from destroyed Romulan ships during the war.
They also make it somewhat more believable that no humans ever recovered any bodies from destroyed Romulan ships during the war.
Didn't start out as a fan of the NX or the era of that design. Was disappointed that they went straight to saucers. But now I like it and you can really get a sense of the era in the design of 22nd century ships that don't have secondary hulls. That goes all the way to the Franklin in Star Trek Beyond. My favorite of the era is the NV-class Intrepid.
Really like the design too but I can't stop seeing Enterprise's warp core.And also the SS Conestoga, which might look a little bulky, but for some reason has that sense of realism about it. That command center section looks so damn cool …
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Might as well bring up the Romulan Drone Ship. It's an interesting design that actually reminds me of the Narada from Star Trek '09. Perhaps they share a design firm within the Romulan Star Empire.
They also make it somewhat more believable that no humans ever recovered any bodies from destroyed Romulan ships during the war.
It's too bad that it was just a reuse of an alien background ship from Voyager and not an original creation. It's even referred to as a 'warbird' in dialogue, which it looks nothing like.
Now that you mentioned that, I can't unsee it.
And also the SS Conestoga, which might look a little bulky, but for some reason has that sense of realism about it. That command center section looks so damn cool …
It's nice that we eventually got those renders. It's too bad the only time we ever saw that model in the show was on a computer screen. I wonder if there were plans for a flashback sequence or something, it's very detailed for something that wasn't really in the episode.
For all we know, that's what the Romulans call all their ships. Kinda like Starfleet and "Starship."
Thats all fine and good, but it doesn't change the fact that they just recycled an alien ship from a show taking place 200 years later, rather than either a) reusing the BoP CGI model they used previously, or b) making a new CGI model specifically meant to be a remote-controlled Romulan warship.
The one thing that bothers me (slightly) about the Sarajevo is the internal warp engines. Seems like a design cue that's at least a hundred years early for the Federation.
Meh. I'm still ok with it. If only because Star Trek has basically been doing that exact thing since the 60's. It's in our blood.
A bird was drawn up for it. But the studio did not want the bird. They thought it clashed with the design ethos of the show.
Robert Bonchune did add the artwork to some later renders of the design. It looked great. Did they ever say why they didn't add the artwork for the episode?
They were right. The ship looks better without the bird. But then the ship looks like it comes from the late 24th century rather than the mid-22nd.
Yeah, I remember catching that in theaters and getting a real sense of happiness upon seeing it.One also gets a barely visible cameo in Star Trek Beyond
22nd century United Earth Starfleet.
Includes the various ships from the Star Trek: Legacy (2007 videogame, not the planned tv show). Missing from the video game is the Strider class.
Discovery class is what the Conestoga-type is known as in the game.
I do not recall it ever being confirmed that the Intrepid-type and Neptune class were one and the same. But this seems like a believable fleet circa 2159, when the ENT portion of the game is set.
I adore the Yorktown class from "Star Trek: Legacy" and love that game. (Plot by D.C. Fontana? Yes please.)
Anyhoo, minus ENT textures the Yorktown looks like a better NCC-1000 than an ENT-era ship, but she's still purty.
I'll add that the Discovery class from the game is a nice upgrade of the Conestoga:
It doesn't look like it gets as much love on the internet, but I like it.
Anyhoo, minus ENT textures the Yorktown looks like a better NCC-1000 than an ENT-era ship, but she's still purty.
I'll add that the Discovery class from the game is a nice upgrade of the Conestoga:
It doesn't look like it gets as much love on the internet, but I like it.
Before the design for the NX-01 was decided, there were a few other designed floated.
Saucer with fins attached to the nacelles.
A coleopteric warp drive aka warp ring ship with saucer, with nacelles. A successor to the XCV-300
An ancestor to the Enterprise on SNW.
The first two designs would have helped the show feel more primitive than it did.
Saucer with fins attached to the nacelles.
A coleopteric warp drive aka warp ring ship with saucer, with nacelles. A successor to the XCV-300
An ancestor to the Enterprise on SNW.
The first two designs would have helped the show feel more primitive than it did.
A ringship NX-01 would've been interesting, but I nevertheless always disliked that concept design. To me, it looked ungainly. That can be a positive if it looks ungainly in a low tech, pre-TOS sort of way, but the way the rings were tacked onto the back of a traditional star trek ship layout creates too many visual elements. It just looks awkward to me.
If given the choice, I'd still go with the highly derivative, but very well executed 'Akiraprise' NX-01 instead of an original but odd looking design.
That being said, I'd gladly take a ringship over whatever is going on here:
Even John Eaves said that this was the 'whatever' version hehe
Those nacelles...
If given the choice, I'd still go with the highly derivative, but very well executed 'Akiraprise' NX-01 instead of an original but odd looking design.
That being said, I'd gladly take a ringship over whatever is going on here:
Even John Eaves said that this was the 'whatever' version hehe
Those nacelles...
